"When you write poems with kids, you see how immediately they get this,"
"If you read a poem aloud to kids, they start to dance in their seats."
"I hope that my books provide space for young people to explore, and say, "Yeah, I feel seen,""
"That's what I want young people to do to talk to each other and to the adults in their lives."
Catia Chien and Matthew Burgess received the Caldecott Medal for Fireworks, a picture book about two siblings awaiting a July 4 fireworks show, with illustrations and Burgess' poetic language enhancing the sensory experience. Renee Watson won the Newbery Medal for All the Blues in the Sky, a middle-grade verse novel about 13-year-old Sage coping with grief after her best friend's death. Coretta Scott King Book Awards honored Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes and The Library in the Woods by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Arriel Vinson received the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award for New Talent, and Kadir Nelson received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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